Dear Mrs. Sanders,
Last Friday night, in Shul, I was sitting next to the father of a Down’s Syndrome child. He noticed the ad for your publication “Down Syndrome Among Us” in the News Report on the same page as my column. He was pleasantly surprised that such heimishe professional publication exists ‘among us’. And he hasn’t even seen the magazine (yet).

Do you know the difference?
My child`s diagnosis right after birth,
Rattled the very foundations of the earth.
Down Syndrome is its fancy name,
He is retarded all the same.

This past Shabbos my son, Nota Shloima turned four years old. My son, Nota Shloima is a child with Down syndrome. That’s the syndrome where G-d took away a little bit of ‘seychel’, a little bit of wisdom, and gave an overdose of joy. It’s the syndrome they used to call Mongoloid idiot. That ‘Mongoloid idiot’ has now become ‘a child with Down syndrome’.